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St Mirren 0 Clyde 0: Dogged Clyde rise to the top

AT THE height of a summer that saw Clyde’s playing resources ravaged, the Broadwood club had little option but to rely on self-protection, cherishing the valuables still in their possession by the in-house appointment of Billy Reid as manager.

It is a policy that is still serving them well as winter arrives. They are looking back to look forward, firing an earnest challenge on the First Division not with flames of attacking passion, but the slow-burning reliability of an unflinching defence.

That cold-blooded streak to their game is behind a pretty hot set of statistics. Clyde now top the division in their own right, despite having scored only 15 goals in 13 games. An unfeasibly frugal six have been conceded in that time.

St Mirren will be at pains to point out that it was they who did more to ease the suffering of a game that deserved its barren